Microbial Catalysts

Dr. Shadia M. Abdel-Aziz obtained her M SC from the Dairy Microbiology Department, and received PhD from the Bacteriology Department, Cairo University, Egypt. She is a Professor in Microbial Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Egypt. She is a member in the Arab Society for Medical Research and Society for Developing Clean Farming Systems. Her areas of research and work expertise are Microbial biotechnology, Plant-Microbial Interactions, Secondary Metabolites, Medicinal Plants, and Enzymology. Dr. Shadia has worked with 5 international books and contributed with 12 book chapters. Join as a reviewer in highly impacted peer-review journals, and also join the editorial board of many journals. Her work includes: optimization and development of novel enzymes based on utilization of waste materials, production of bioactive substances with antimicrobial potential, Biological control for protection of economically crops. Dr. Shadia has guided post graduate students as Lecturer for different subjects in Microbiology. Dr Neelam Garg was born in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) in 1960. She completed her both higher degrees of Masters and Doctorate in Microbiology from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana (Punjab) with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxins. She was a recipient of merit fellowship in Masters and CSIR Research Fellowship during her Ph.D. programme. Presently, she is Professor and has presided over the Department of Microbiology as Chairperson (HOD), Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University (KUK), Kurukshetra-136 119 for three terms latest being from 2012-2018. She has over 31 years of research and teaching experience as a faculty member in PAU and KUK. She was awarded two major research projects by Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Government of India), Dr. Abhinav Aeron was born and raised in the city of Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh). He completed his Masters in Microbiology from DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar and Doctorate in Microbiology from Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar-249 404, Uttarakhand, India. He worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and further as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (UCOST, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Uttarakhand) sponsored while pursuing his Doctorate on Diversity of rhizobia in Medicinal legumes. He also went to pursue post doctoral fellowship at Chonbuk National University, Iksan, South Korea. He served as Assistant Professor (on contract) in Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University for 6 months and then shifted to Department of Biosciences, DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar as a Lecturer. Further he worked in Sharda University, Greater Noida and Dolphin PG Institite, Dehradun as Assistant Professor. Vivek Kumar Bajpai, PhD, Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Preface; Industrial Application of Microbial Amylases; Fungal Lipases Production by Solid-State Fermentation: An Opportunity for Increasing Process Profitability; Application of Lipase in Non-Conventional Media Based Catalysis; Production and Applications of Microbial Tannase; Xylanase: An Industrially Important Enzyme; Microbial Alkaline Proteases: Production and Application in the Leather Industry; The Beneficial Role of Microbial Catalyst for Sustainable Environment; Microbial Enzymes: The Types and Roles in the Bio-Control of Fungal Phytopathogens; Enzymes and Their Vital Role in the Food Industry; Potential Application of Enzymes of Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Food Industry; The Potential Application of Microbial Catalyst in Food Biotechnology; Functional, Structural, and Thermodynamic Characteristics of Enzymes from Deep-Sea Microorganisms; Solving the Structure of Amidase-03; An Overview about Our Understanding of Protein Activity, Specificity, Structure and Function; Index.